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Oracle Bone Picture Book

by Central Academy of Fine Arts Picture Book Creation Studio

The "Oracle Bone Picture Book" series introduces children aged 5-10 to Chinese characters. It explains the connection between character shapes and meanings of the ancient oracle bone script and showcases their real-life applications, helping children understand Chinese characters from their roots and fostering an appreciation for the script, making learning fun and engaging. It contains 10 books: "A Big Deal", "Amazing Mom", "Lessons from Animals", "The Heart of Plants", "Their Family", "Feast and Song", "Under the Sky, Between Mountains and Seas", "At Your Home, At Mine", "Off to the Hunt", "Face Stories".

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Dietetics & nutrition

October 2002

Nutrition and Immune Function

by Edited by Philip C Calder, Catherine J Field, Harsharnjit S Gill

This book provides a review of the roles of specific nutrients in maintaining the immune response and host protection against infection. It also considers the influence of various factors, such as exercise and ageing, on the interaction between nutrition and immune function. The main emphasis is on humans, but comparative mammalian data are also presented.The contents include methods for studying nutrient-immune function interactions, the impact of undernutrition on immune function and infection, the influences of fatty acids, amino acids, antioxidant vitamins, and various minerals on immunity, immunological effects of changes throughout the life cycle, and public health policy implications.

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November 2012

Weihnachtsgeschichten am Kamin 27

by Herausgegeben von Mürmann, Barbara; Beiträge von Rheinhold, Sabine; Beiträge von Wollrath, Anni; Beiträge von Frank, Joachim; Beiträge von Wirries, Gundula; Beiträge von Metzner, Christian; Beiträge von Gerber, Hannes; Beiträge von Behrmann, Erika; Beiträge von Köhnemann, Maike; Beiträge von Schmitz, Kurt; Beiträge von Zahr, Ursula; Beiträge von Benedict, Lieselotte; Beiträge von Schmette, Uwe; Beiträge von Meyer, Heiner; Beiträge von Reichelt, Heiderose; Beiträge von Begiebing, Margit; Beiträge von Heiß, Werner; Beiträge von Wiese, Wolfgang; Beiträge von Scholz, Peter J.; Beiträge von Volkermann, Maria; Beiträge von Karger-Kähler, Thea; Beiträge von Bernheiden, Inge; Beiträge von Stahlmann, Hannelore; Beiträge von Schmidt, Edith; Beiträge von Pilot, Christine; Beiträge von Schäfer, Gisela; Beiträge von Prior, Raymonde; Beiträge von Demuß, Carl H.; Beiträge von Röper, Christiane; Beiträge von Schuster, Frauke; Beiträge von Hoyer, Heike; Beiträge von Glandt, Andy; Beiträge von Schneiderhan, Peter; Beiträge von Osterried, Peter; Beiträge von Dörfel, Käthe; Beiträge von Arsand, Wilfried; Beiträge von Wittschen, Holger; Beiträge von Eggersglüß, Sigrid; Beiträge von Hajak, Rita; Beiträge von Roland, Norbert W.; Beiträge von Mucks, Ilse

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October 2015

Weihnachtsgeschichten am Kamin 30

Gesammelt von Barbara Mürmann

by Herausgegeben von Mürmann, Barbara; Beiträge von Kirschke, Birgit; Beiträge von Tischlinger, Martina; Beiträge von Paulussen, Ingo; Beiträge von Zickmann, Christine; Beiträge von Benedict, Lieselotte; Beiträge von Mösch, Elisabeth; Beiträge von Kehl-Kochanek, Christel; Beiträge von Kleinke-Bialy, Inka; Beiträge von Franke, Birgit; Beiträge von Wollrath, Anni; Beiträge von Kernchen, Franziska; Beiträge von Hennecke, Andrea; Beiträge von Klappstein, Thomas; Beiträge von Kocksch, Karina; Beiträge von Sander, Ina; Beiträge von Schikorsky, Isa; Beiträge von Kammer, Wolfgang; Beiträge von Pronnet, Barbara; Beiträge von Kügler, Christa; Beiträge von Glandt, Andy; Beiträge von Bayer, Ingrid; Beiträge von Winkler, Hannah; Beiträge von Lux, Hille; Beiträge von Volkermann, Maria; Beiträge von Aidenberger, Alina; Beiträge von Schneiderhan, Peter; Beiträge von Pohl, Uwe; Beiträge von Frank, Joachim; Beiträge von Begiebing, Margit; Beiträge von Bonk, Karl-Heinz; Beiträge von Kurowski, Gabriele; Beiträge von Mucks, Ilse; Beiträge von Echelmeyer, Liz; Beiträge von Longo, Annette; Beiträge von Herbrik, Marina; Beiträge von Schuster, Frauke; Beiträge von Pilot, Christine; Beiträge von Heil, Alexandra; Beiträge von Piater, Petra; Beiträge von Adolph, Birgitt; Beiträge von Reichelt, Heiderose; Beiträge von Puhane, Anja; Beiträge von Reiche, Brigitte; Beiträge von Harkou, Brigitte; Beiträge von Sossenheimer, Hildegard; Beiträge von Daniels, Petra; Beiträge von Meier-Behrendt, Annemarie

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April 2013

Pilot Pirx

Erzählungen

by Roswitha Buschmann, Kurt Kelm, Stanisław Lem

Zu den liebenswürdigsten Gestalten, die der weltberühmte polnische Science-fiction-Autor Stanislaw Lem geschaffen hat, gehört Pilot Pirx. Seine Geschichten sind im Grunde Variationen über ein Thema: »nämlich das Modell des Menschen in der kosmischen Ära«, wie der Kritiker Jerzy Jarzebski es formulierte.

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August 2003

Pilot Pirx

Erzählungen

by Stanisław Lem, Roswitha Buschmann, Kurt Kelm, Caesar Rymarowicz, Barbara Sparing

Zu den liebenswürdigsten Gestalten, die der weltberühmte polnische Science-fiction-Autor Stanislaw Lem geschaffen hat, gehört Pilot Pirx. Seine Geschichten sind im Grunde Variationen über ein Thema: »nämlich das Modell des Menschen in der kosmischen Ära«, wie der Kritiker Jerzy Jarzebski es formulierte.

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Food & Drink

Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food

by Lam Chua

Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food involves Mr. Chua's travel notes and random thoughts on his trip for savoring food. He experiences around the world from Moscow to Buenos Aires, feasting your eyes on European and American styles and customs; he travels around China from Dalian of Liaoning to Sheung Wan of Hong Kong, savoring local culture and cuisines; he talks about food from cup noodles and sauce to fish roes and curry, airing opinions and making comments in passionate language. Besides, the book is illustrated by the Hong Kong talented artist as well as Mr. Chua's dedicated illustrator Ms. Meilo So. Her loose, flowing, and easily recognizable style add more appeal and interest to the book.

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The Arts

January 2019

Negotiating the auteur

Dominique Cabrera, Noémie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson and Marion Vernoux

by Julia Dobson

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship between the privileged status of the auteur and questions of genre, gender and cinematic production in France today. This important contribution to understanding the shifting landscapes of contemporary French film identifies an essential intermediacy in the films of these directors, which works to undo a series of dominant oppositions, generic template and contestation, public collectivity and personal intimacy, to offer a new perspective on the location of the political in contemporary French cinema. The four chapters provide detailed critical analysis of films by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noémie Lvovsky and Marion Vernoux, and present common thread including the possible construction of social intimacy, the political demystification of romance narratives and the role of nostalgia, to argue that their work uses popular genres in order to challenge dominant cultural representation that resonates beyond the immediate parameters of contemporary French cinema. This book will be of interest to researchers working in French and European cinema, to students of Film Studies and French and Francophone Studies, and to film enthusiasts.

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Children's & YA

The Dragon Lantern

China Story Picture Books

by Yi Ping

China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Dragon Lantern tells a folk story of the Spring Festival. Yuanyuan and Fangfang are twins, and they have a common wish: to have a big lantern on the day of the Spring Festival. When the new year comes, the dragon in the dragon lantern jumps into the sky and turns into a fire dragon with colorful lights. He takes the God of Fortune, the Door God, the Kitchen God and the Lord Rabbit for a walk in the sky, laughs, and brings everyone the blessings of the festival.

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Hua Yaya Learns Paper-cutting

by Wa Mao, Huang Junxian

She is Hua Yaya, a little apprentice who wants to learn paper-cutting. But the master she wants to learn from is a bit strange. As an apprentice for three years, Hua Yaya spends a year in watering flowers, another year in sharpening a pair of scissors and a third year in visiting the market. Finally, her strange master flies into her paper-cut by riding a golden bird. Can she cut out lifelike patterns such as flowers, birds, leaves and characters?

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2018

An Introduction to Philosophy of Library Science

by Tang Liguang

The mission of philosophy is to lead the trend of the times and history. The theoretical construction of philosophy of library science will also assume the historical responsibility of leading the development of contemporary library science theory and practice. This book takes Marx's practical materialism as the theoretical foundation, and examines the thinking mode and main issues of library philosophy, the view of practice and materialism, library dialectics, the labor of librarians and their alienation, the philosophical cultivation and creation of librarians, and such major theoretical issues including various contemporary issues, to a certain extent. Based on this, a theoretical framework based on practical materialism was attempted. This book is a comprehensive work written by the author on the basis of his works Study on Axiology of Library, Study on Ontology of Library,and Study on Epistemology of Library. It is suitable for all who care about library existence and development to read.

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Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food 2

by Lam Chua

Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food 2 is a sequel to Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food, involving Mr. Chua's travel notes and random thoughts on his trip for savoring food, especially his new articles as well as his Weibo post about delicacies, anecdotes and scenery during 2018 to 2020. What Mr. Chua delivers to us in this book goes beyond just travelling and food, but more of his refreshing insight into life's ups and downs.

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The Arts

January 2019

Cinema - Italy

by Stefania Parigi, Des O'Rawe

A journey to the Italian cinema that overturns established views and opens up new perspectives and interpretations. Its itinerary is organized in four stages. The first is an analysis of the theories of Cesare Zavattini on neorealism which overturns widely accepted positions both on Zavattini and on neorealism. The second confronts a key film of the post-war Italian cinema, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà, by examining the nature of its realism. The third is dedicated to Luchino Visconti: to questions of the use of language exemplified in his La terra trema, the use of settings, costume and light as agents of meaning in his Il Gattopardo and Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa. The final voyage of the film is to the physical and symbolic construction of heaven and earth in the work of Pasolini. Particular attention is given to the representation of the body in his last four films: the grotesque and mythical bodies in popular tradition in his Trilogia di vita and the tortured bodies destroyed by the mass media in Salò.

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The Arts

January 2019

European Film Noir

by Andrew Spicer

European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an authoritative understanding of an important aspect of European cinema and of film noir itself, for too long considered as a solely American form. The Introduction reviews the problems of defining film noir, its key characteristics and discusses its significance to the development of European film, the relationship of specific national films noirs to each other, to American noir and to historical and social change. Eight chapters then discuss film noir in France, Germany, Britain and Spain, analysing both earlier developments and the evolution of neo-noir through to the present. A further chapter explores film noir in Italian cinema where its presence is not so well defined. Each piece provides a critical overview of the most significant films in relation to their industrial and social contexts. European Film Noir is an important contribution to the study of European cinema that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates, cinéastes, film teachers and researchers.

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The Arts

June 2021

Lukácsian film theory and cinema

A study of Georg Lukács' writing on film 1913–1971

by Ian Aitken

Lukácsian film theory and cinema explores Georg Lukács' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic Georg Lukács is primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the cinema. These writings have remained little known in the English-speaking world because the great majority of them have never actually been translated into English - until now. Aitken has gathered together the most important essays and the translations appear here, often for the first time. This book thus makes a decisive contribution to understandings of Lukács within the field of film studies, and, in doing so, also challenges many existing preconceptions concerning his theoretical position. For example, whilst Lukács' literary theory is well known for its repudiation of naturalism, in his writings on film Lukács appears to advance a theory and practice of film that can best be described as naturalist. Lukácsian film theory and cinema is divided into two parts. In part one, Lukács' writings on film are explored, and placed within relevant historical and intellectual contexts, whilst part two consists of the essays themselves. This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students working within the fields of film studies, literary studies, intellectual history, media and cultural studies. It is also intended to be the final volume in a trilogy of works on cinematic realism, which includes the author's earlier European film theory and cinema (2001), and Realist film theory and cinema (2006).

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The Arts

January 2019

Realist film theory and cinema

The nineteenth-century Lukácsian and intuitionist realist traditions

by Ian Aitken

'Realist film theory and cinema' embraces studies of cinematic realism and 19th century tradition, the realist film theories of Lukács, Grierson, Bazin and Kracauer, and the relationship of realist film theory to the general field of film theory and philosophy. This is the first book to attempt a rigorous and systematic application of realist film theory to the analysis of particular films. The book suggests new ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism. It stresses the importance of the question of realism both in film studies and in contemporary life. Aitken's work will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of film studies, literary studies, media studies, cultural studies and philosophy.

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Child & developmental psychology

The Captain Nemo Stories

by Ulrike Petermann

Even at a primary school age, children can suffer from anxiety and stress with symptoms ranging from feeling tense to problems concentrating or sleeping. The stories of Captain Nemo help children relax and learn to let go of their anxiety and restlessness. The relaxation stories, written for children ages 5-12, can be either read aloud to the child or by the children themselves. The main character, Captain Nemo, invites the children to come along for his adventures on his submarine the Nautilus. The stories take the children to visit a coral forest, ride a giant tortoise, or explore the lost city of Atlantis. Through the stories, the children learn strategies to calm themselves and relax which they can then re-use in difficult situations in their daily lives. This widely successful book can be used at home, by teachers, social workers, school psychologists, child and adolescentpsychotherapists, and psychiatrists. For:• child and adolescent psycho-therapistsand psychiatrists,social workers, school psychologists,teachers, parents

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Rare Animals in China: Fly, the Tern Xiaoyi

by Qiu Qiu, Su Da

The book Rare Animals in China - Fly, the Tern Xiaoyi is an original popular science picture book. In the form of a diary, it vividly depicts the process of the critically endangered animal, the Chinese crested tern, from breaking out of its shell to spreading its wings and flying, revealing from one side the living conditions of rare animals in China and the various efforts made by scientists with the purpose of protecting them. By reading this book, children will not only acquire knowledge about the Chinese crested tern, and gain perspective on Earth’s biodiversity, but also establish an awareness of protecting endangered species and the environment, and build a modern outlook on life in which man and nature live in harmony.

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The Arts

May 2024

Robert Lepage's original stage productions

by Karen Fricker

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The Arts

August 2020

Robert Lepage's original stage productions

by Karen Fricker, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels

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by Stanisław Lem, Roswitha Buschmann, Kurt Kelm, Caesar Rymarowicz, Barbara Sparing

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